William Clark Green Quotes
Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care.
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I never had a huge circle of friends, so I really just tried to cherish and not take for granted the close friends I did have, who were really supportive and understanding.
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That's always the way in this world. The chappies you'd like to lend money to won't let you, whereas the chappies you don't want to lend it to will do everything except actually stand you on your head and lift the specie out of your pockets.
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The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.
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People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
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Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.
